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Ponderosa pines in Caton Lake Roadless on
Payette NF, nine years after prescribed fire –
Photo courtesy of John McCarthy/ TWS
Last week, conservationists gathered in our nation’s capital to toast 10 years of Roadless Forests. They were marking the anniversary of a key piece of legislation that has helped to safeguard our public woodlands. Unfortunately, the Bush [...]
GreenPeace
December 03, 2007
It’s said that a week is a long time in politics. The burning question is whether two weeks is long enough for governments to finally wake up, smell the carbon and confront the biggest problem facing the world. We say yes! It’s time for governments to take action on global warming.
Here it is [...]
Today, the Center for American Progress, a public policy think tank, released an economic blueprint that looks at the crises facing our country not as a reason for defensive hand-wringing but as an opportunity for technological innovation and social re-invention. It’s a refreshingly open-eyed assessment of the challenges before the U.S. at a time when [...]
The Summit is bringing together young adults and professionals with the common goal of improving the health of our ocean, October 26th 30th
Media Contacts:
Nick Drayton:
Email: ndrayton@oceanconservancy.org
Tom McCann:
Email: tmccann@oceanconservancy.org
Ocean Conservancy
St. Croix, USVI Today, Ocean Conservancy and partners throughout the U.S. and British Virgin Islands are convening the 2007 Youth Summit on the Oceans: Virgin Islands Future Leaders [...]
Filled with sound and fury, but signifying nothing new, the George W. Bush administration made a grand show today of caring about climate change (see the New York Times story Bush Outlines Proposal on Climate Change). The thinly veiled, politically orchestrated State Department conference had Bush playing the same false notes, in a lame duck [...]
In a culture where profit is enshrined as the highest good, and individual rights are exalted over social responsibility, its hard to even start a conversation about sustainable business practices with most Americans. President Bush and his administration have quite succesfully conjured images of economic collapse whenever anyone challenges our reliance on fossil fuels, for [...]
Congress is working on an energy bill that the Democratic leadership has pledged to pass with measures to address climate change. Unfortunately for all of us, as one more proof of the Greg Palast book title The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, the fossil fuel lobbyists are trying to pay off our “representatives” in return [...]
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